Quadrantids of the North
Named for aforgottenconstellation, theQuadrantid Meteor Showerputs on an annual show for planet Earth’s northern hemisphere skygazers.The shower’s radiant on the skylies within the old, astronomically obsolete constellationQuadransMuralis.That location is not far from the Big Dipper,at the boundaries of the modern constellations Bootes and Draco.In fact north star Polaris is just below center in this frame andthe Big Dipper asterism (known to some asthe Plough) is above it,with the meteor shower radiant to the right.
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